Some Buddhists believe Mara is an actual existing being. They then posit four sperate Mara (which are then condensed into a single figure): Devaputra Mara, Skhanda Mara, Klesha Mara and Mrityu Mara .

Other Buddhists interpret the Mara in the following way: Devaputra Mara is the seduction of the bliss of meditative absorption (ie attachment and grasping for this bliss). Skhanda Mara is the belief that the five aggregates constitute a self. Klesha Mara is merely an anthorpomorphic representation of our own negative mental qualities and Mrityu Mara is death itself.

Other Buddhists, due to their realisation of the dependently arising nature of all samsaric phenomena, recognise that ultimately there is no Mara, and no self that is a victim of Maras actions.

Sorry for all the wiki links, but I don't have time to deal with the issue in further depth right now. I am sure that you (and others) can take it from here anyway.

Being a Buddhist means to battle Mara every single moment of the day, you don't have to be a master to do so, you just have to pick yourself up and dust yourself off after every ass-whipping, until you yourself overcome Mara.

Some Buddhists believe Mara is an actual existing being. They then posit four sperate Mara (which are then condensed into a single figure): Devaputra Mara, Skhanda Mara, Klesha Mara and Mrityu Mara .

Other Buddhists interpret the Mara in the following way: Devaputra Mara is the seduction of the bliss of meditative absorption (ie attachment and grasping for this bliss). Skhanda Mara is the belief that the five aggregates constitute a self. Klesha Mara is merely an anthorpomorphic representation of our own negative mental qualities and Mrityu Mara is death itself.

Other Buddhists, due to their realisation of the dependently arising nature of all samsaric phenomena, recognise that ultimately there is no Mara, and no self that is a victim of Maras actions.

Sorry for all the wiki links, but I don't have time to deal with the issue in further depth right now. I am sure that you (and others) can take it from here anyway.

Being a Buddhist means to battle Mara every single moment of the day, you don't have to be a master to do so, you just have to pick yourself up and dust yourself off after every ass-whipping, until you yourself overcome Mara.

Yes he did fight Mara. Have you actually read anything that has been posted here?

I suspect that he took his subconscious mind activity for real. This is of course normal. He is the one who opened the path. Now we know more than him and his friends.

I find it unlikely that you "know" more than a fully enlightened being, but hey, who am I to burst your bubble?

I did the same with the Devil (a highly dangerous character animated by the subconscious mind). But I battle him by developing "dream-resistance" as I described above.

Yes, well... I'll take your word for it.

So I wonder who else battled Mara and how. I would appreciate any information.

You could start by reading the lives of the 84 Mahasiddhas. Really, every single enlightened being has battled and gained victory over Mara. All spiritual seekers battle Mara every day. But hey, I already said that. Are you sure you are reading any of the stuff being posted here?

Yes he did fight Mara. Have you actually read anything that has been posted here?

I suspect that he took his subconscious mind activity for real. This is of course normal. He is the one who opened the path. Now we know more than him and his friends.

I find it unlikely that you "know" more than a fully enlightened being, but hey, who am I to burst your bubble?

I did the same with the Devil (a highly dangerous character animated by the subconscious mind). But I battle him by developing "dream-resistance" as I described above.

Yes, well... I'll take your word for it.

So I wonder who else battled Mara and how. I would appreciate any information.

You could start by reading the lives of the 84 Mahasiddhas. Really, every single enlightened being has battled and gained victory over Mara. All spiritual seekers battle Mara every day. But hey, I already said that. Are you sure you are reading any of the stuff being posted here?

Thank you for the links and information. I will read them.

I am just checking if there is a quick answer to this question:

How a Buddhist master battles Mara? What is the method that they employ?

Green5 wrote:Thank you all. I am in fact not talking about meditation. I am working on healing my sunconscious.

Make a sunconciousness out of the subconciousness.

I just wondered what Buddhists did about Mara.

I think they look at him. They confess their mistakes and they try to be concious about the three poisons "ignorance, greed and hatered". They don't let him work undercover.Buddha said something like: "I see you" or "I know you" to Mara - an this weakend Mara to unconditional surrender.

Just like the teachings talk about external thieves and internal thieves(the defilements), the texts also talk about an external Mara and internal maras.

Every practitioner deals with internal maras. That is fair portion of the Buddhist path.

Probably not every practitioner deals with Mara directly. Perhaps Mara has something to do with the social forces in the world today. Mara's interest is in controlling, he's not exactly like the Christian devil, but when people begin to free themselves from worldly desire they can't be controlled in the same way and that bothers Mara and probably a lot of other external beings.

Ayu wrote:I think they look at him. They confess their mistakes and they try to be concious about the three poisons "ignorance, greed and hatered". They don't let him work undercover.Buddha said something like: "I see you" or "I know you" to Mara - an this weakend Mara to unconditional surrender.

It may have been easy for Buddha to let go the Mara problem. I personally faced the following problems which made it very difficult to me to let go the Devil problem.

1. Feeling his emotions made him so realistic. It is not like Pink Panther. He talks directly to you and you can feel his emotions.2. He is so spoiled that I couldn't forget him. I entered in a loop. I could not forget him and animated him continuously. I had to let go resistance to his incredible behaviour.3. I had a baby sitter character. I baby sitted him. I let go my baby sitter character and let him go.4. The fear of other people. They were probably accusing me for messing with the Devil (telepathically).

So, I don't know about Buddha, but in my case the process was highly difficult.